Re: /etc/init.d

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:11:27PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
On 01/06/2011 06:57 AM, stan wrote:
A quick question. On 10.04, if I add a package that is _not_ from the
Ubuntu respoitries, can I just put it's startup script in /etc/init.d, and
expect thisngs to get started up on system boot? Or is there more I need to
do/

For instance, what control what runleves it is satrted and stoped at?



You can put the init script under /etc/init.d/ (or convert it to
upstart ;-).

Then use update-rc.d to set the run levels you want it to
automagically start. Usually the defaults are appropriate:

sudo update-rc.d <scriptName> defaults


Thanks for all the replies on this. It looked like this would be easy, but
....

Perhaps I need to provide more details. I installed the xrdp package, using
apt-get. It appeared to be the package that provided the fucntionality I
needed, but it proved to be very fragile, and unstable. I sent email to the
support list for xrdp, where it was sugested that I try the git ersion, ass
it is more stbale. Did an apt-get removee xrdp, downloaded, complied, and
did a make install on the new cersion, started it by hand, and it does seem
to be stable, so now I need t install int on the machine. Manualy put the
startup script in /etc/init.d, looked at the replies to this post, and did
the following:

root@pm2v40:/etc/init.d# update-rc.d xrdp defaults
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xrdp missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/xrdp already exist.

Now I understnad the LSB part, but this implies that the links that were
installed for the Ubuntu xrdp package did not get removed, when I di the
uninstall. Is this correct? If so, why not?


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